(P/B) VULTURE IN A CAGE

Παρουσίαση

Named after Solomon Ibn Gabirol's own sharp self-description, Vulture in a Cage is the most extensive collection of the 11th century Hebrew poet's works ever to be published in English. Weighty poems of praise, lament, and complaint sit alongside devotional poetry, love poetry, descriptive meditations on nature, and epigrams. Obsessed with the impediments of the body and the material world, Ibn Gabirol ambitiously dreamed of breaking through corporeal constraints and launching his soul into the realm of the intellect. Ibn Gabirol created a style that was in conflict with the esthetics of his age but that feels quite at home in our own.
Translated from Hebrew by Raymond Scheindlin.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol was an Andalusian-Hebrew philosopher and poet from the 11th century, who left behind a body of work that contains profound meditations on the nature of the sacred and the relationship between the human subject and divinity. These poetic writings on himself are far from solipsistic; rather, through the lens of selfhood, Solomon Ibn Gabirol works to understand the transcendental and mystical realms as experiences that are inseparable from an individual's personal reality. For his ability to portray the grand majesty of the cosmos through the complexity of the individual, Solomon Ibn Gabirol has been acclaimed for almost a millennium. (From the publisher)